You gotta give Microsoft credit for its tenacity. In an effort to attract more users, Bing has launched a new program that gives Web surfers rewards for using the search engine and its other services.
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Microsoft’s share of the U.S. search-engine market grew slightly — by 0.1 percentage point — during the month of August, as Google’s shrunk with the help of Yahoo, according to new numbers from comScore.
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Microsoft and Facebook are in talks to further deepen their search ties, with the possibility that Bing could use anonymized data generated by Facebook users to better personalize their search results, All Things Digital reported today.
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The Wall Street Journal reports: “One third of its way into a five-year deal to make its Internet search and advertising services the default option on Verizon Wireless cellphones, Microsoft Corp. is still struggling to make headway in a market that continues to be dominated by Google Inc.” Continue reading at WSJ.com
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After news broke that the Texas Attorney General’s office is just the latest to open an antitrust investigation into Google’s business practices, a company attorney wrote a blog post that indirectly pointed a finger at Microsoft.
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